XDocs 4.1 put the Knowledge Base at the center of its 2016 release. It offered responsive topic delivery, product and version filters, and scheduled updates from approved production content.
The XDocs 4.1 reader experience
The XDocs 4.1 announcement focused on helping people search, browse, find and share information in smaller, relevant pieces. The Knowledge Base presented content in a responsive web design, with administrative settings for applying corporate branding.
Find the right content
Product and version filters, powerful search and navigable DITA structures and links helped readers narrow their route through the material.
Use and share the answer
The release included multimedia display, shareable content links, customer feedback, PDF downloads and multilingual content support.
“Finding relevant, up-to-date information in sizable bites is fast becoming the de facto standard for search. Serving up a relevant topic vs. an entire publication, such as PDF, has far more appeal and value for the end-users and information seekers.”
Nenad Furtula · VP Sales and Marketing, Bluestream · 2016
“Combined with the exponential rise in mobile technology, namely smartphones and tablets, delivery platforms such as Bluestream’s Knowledge Base are fast becoming the norm for information delivery.”
The production connection
Behind the reader-facing experience, XDocs 4.1 connected the Knowledge Base to content production. It automatically pulled approved content from the production server for scheduled updates. The announcement linked this delivery layer to XDocs tools for content creation, review, management and localization.
Editorial context · October 2026
Two questions behind a useful Knowledge Base
Can a reader identify the right answer?
Start with an actual reader task to test the product and version filters. Then check whether the topic identifies the product, release and language it applies to.
Can the team explain what is live?
Scheduled delivery creates a publishing decision: which approved material should appear, and when? Follow one changed topic from approval through the next update. Finally, verify its links and downloadable output.
Together, these checks help evaluate the 4.1 design. They do not establish the capabilities of later XDocs releases.
Company information and contacts from the original announcement
Archived wording. Company descriptions, roles, addresses and contact details below are preserved as part of the historical record and may have changed.
About Bluestream
Bluestream’s flagship product is the XDocs Content Management System (CMS), a standards-compliant single-sourcing solution that enables technical communicators to create, manage, and store large volumes of both XML and non-XML content. XDocs enables organizations of all sizes to realize the benefits of DITA at a lower cost than the competition while providing a comparable or better quality system—thus offering unparalleled value.
Bluestream customers range from Fortune 100 organizations seeking complex cross-departmental DITA solutions to small businesses containing single author documentation teams.
Bluestream has been in business since 1997 and has customers in many verticals, among them software, oil and gas, health care, military, manufacturing, and finance.
Bluestream Media Contact
Nenad Furtula, VP Sales and Marketing
Bluestream Database Software Corp.
200 – 1168 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, Canada
Tel: +1.604.669.4469